Hungary

Athletics
Events

Budapest’s Mayor, Gergely Karácsony, has found himself at loggerheads with the Hungarian government over the staging of the 2023 World Athletics Championships in the city amid the proposed development of…
Swimming
Events

Fina, the global governing body for aquatic sports, has confirmed the final calendar for the 2021 Swimming World Cup, with four legs to be held throughout October in Europe and the Middle East
Football
Media

Hungarian commercial and pay-television broadcaster TV2 has renewed a rights agreement for football’s English Premier League and signed a new deal to cover the German Bundesliga, while also preparing t…
Table Tennis
Events

The Hungarian capital of Budapest has been announced as the host of Europe’s first World Table Tennis Series event next month. 
Football
Media

Broadcasters in a total of 18 different European and Central Asian countries must submit their bids in the second week of June for a suite of Uefa men’s national team rights during the 2022-28 cycle.
Football
Media

Hungarian media group Network4 has acquired rights to Germany’s Bundesliga for the next four seasons. The deal also grants Network4 rights to the second-tier 2.B
Football
Media

Broadcast rights to Italian football’s Coppa Italia and Supercoppa Italiana from 2021-22 to 2023-24 have been acquired by a string of agencies and broadcasters in different international markets.
Tennis
Events

The International Tennis Federation has launched a fresh search for a host for this year’s Billie Jean King Cup Finals after electing to terminate the contract it held with Budapest.
Football
Media

The Team Marketing agency has started the sales process for Uefa club competitions broadcast rights in another European country, after inviting interested parties in Hungary to bid across the 2021-24 cycle
Tennis
Events

The finals of the Billie Jean King Cup tennis event, originally scheduled for April, will now be held later in the year amid continued health and safety concerns caused by the Covid-19 pandemic
Aquatic Sports
Events

Ligue Européenne de Natation (LEN) president Paolo Barelli has today (Thursday) issued a statement declaring that the 2021 European Aquatics Championships will go ahead as planned in Budapest this May.
Olympic Games
Events

The Hungarian Olympic Committee has announced that it has established a committee to look into the feasibility of launching a bid for the 2032 Summer Olympics in the country’s capital city of Budapest.
Swimming
Events

The International Swimming League has today announced its plans for its second season, with plans in place to hold the majority of the competition in Budapest
Motorsport
Media

Sports broadcaster Sport TV has acquired rights in Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia to the World Touring Car Cup (WTCR) motorsport series
Esports
Media

Hungarian esports broadcaster Esport1 has extended its media-rights agreement for the the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive ESL Pro Tour circuit with esports organisations ESL and DreamHack.
Motor Racing
Events

Formula 1 has granted one-year contract extensions to organisers of the Hungarian, Italian and Belgian Grands Prix as a means of compensating them for the staging of races behind closed doors this year
Football
Media

The host broadcast of matches from the Nemzeti Bajnokság, the top-tier football championship in Hungary, is being undertaken with a reduced production set-up with no cameras allowed alongside the field …